A4207 crash in Westminster on 5 February 2003 at 12:55 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Dennis bus were involved in a crash on the A4207 in Westminster at 12:55 on Wednesday 5 February 2003. A 3-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52099, longitude -0.20072, in the W11 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colville, Kensington and Chelsea, W11 1AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301DM00178
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4207
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2003.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 25 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01975
Slight
Bus crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 5 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501DR00208
Slight
Car crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 11 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010BH0162
Serious
Taxi crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 21 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DR00066
Serious
Car crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 16 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DR00145
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4207 in Kensington and Chelsea, 7 July 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010454287
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200301DM00178 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 2003.